Théo Metais (b. 1991, Niort) lives and works in Berlin. His practice is built on serial drawing structured by variation, sequence and repetition. Usually starting with a line and black ink on paper, he traces this vocabulary back to an early attachment to comic books. Meaning does not reside in any single image. It builds up across multiple series, where form matters less than how it emerges.

Metais works fast as as a mechanism to run against the self. His practice has stretched from paper to wood and canvas, across drawing, oil painting, and printmaking, always returning to the same line, drawn again and again.

He completed a residency at GlogauAIR, Berlin, in 2025. His first solo exhibition opened at PR55, Berlin, in June 2026.

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Born in 1991 in Niort, France
Resides and works in Berlin, Germany

SOLO EXHIBITION

2026 Quiet Sequence, PR55, Berlin

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2026 101 Reasons To Be, 101 Project Space, Berlin
2026 Druckfrisch, Werkstatt Künstlerische Lithographie, Berlin
2026 Sellerie Weekend, 101 Project Space, Berlin
2026 Silencio, Kukumu, Berlin (duo)

2025 Shelter, GlogauAIR Project Space, Berlin
2025 Silencio, Backhaus Projects, Berlin (duo)
2025 Kunst Salat, Studio4000, Berlin
2025 Anemoia, Backhaus Projects, Berlin

2024 Dwelling places, Hotel Continental – Art Space in Exile, Berlin

2023 Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus, Berlin

OPEN STUDIO

2026 KunstandKritz, Berlin
2025 [Virtual] Open Studios, GlogauAIR, Berlin

RESIDENCY

2025 GlogauAIR (online), Berlin
2025 Burnt Sienna Art school Berlin

2024 Burnt Sienna Art school Berlin

PRESS & INTERVIEWS

2026 “Show, Don't Tell Presents”, 90mil Radio
2025 GLOGAUAIR catalogue
2025 GLOGAUAIR interview

COLLECTIONS

Théo Metais's artworks are part of several private collections in Berlin, Germany.